# (2018-09-09)

Invest in building automation tools like generating quotations and igesting and
reading replies.

Invest in reminders for stuff, events and all.

# (2018-09-05)

When a person takes on an ongoing project or customer engagement, or receives a
call from customer, he must be able to quickly lookup the history and be aware of
everything, ... to serve customer better.

# (2018-08-30)

Justify in house development cost by the savings on productivity and software
licenses per year.

## Ownership

Establish ownership and proxies, and approval or chain of command processes for:

* Services
* Tasks
* Customers
* Business
* Systems
* Projects

# (2018-08-06)

We don't have pipelines, list of prospects, market research to know who is out
there in every niche ... etc.

No clear customer list, or history of engagement and services rendered and people
involved on both sides.

# (2018-07-26)

Identify all data sources, owners, sensitivity, and their value.

Initiative also allows us to be our own company if we decided to spin off from
mother company.

# (2018-07-26)

Initiative also can maintain press releases, after we have become better at
tracking our progress and in projecting accurate time lines, we can start doing
press releases to further market and drive business.

We can be confident about it since we will have accurate data.

Other, a strategic thing is knowledge management, which should be part of our new
system.

Other, a system to remind employees of their day's and week's tasks. One should
never forget forget an appointment or an engagement.

Other, in task management, when somebody is not in the office, any other team
member is supposed to be able to carry on, since all progress and knowledge and
correspondence information is available, and permission is automatically given if
assigned as delegate via GRADY.

# (2018-07-24)

The system we are going to build should be central to everything, even email
should be from the system via exchange or WEBDAV or CALDAV or CARDDAV; use tags
and stuff to keep archival and filing organized. Let them be as automatics as
possible.

Let our new initiative be base for all future enhancements, like making all
communications through it, like making a gate access system (instead of ugly paper
forms), or incorporating bar codes or QR codes readers everywhere.

Find an open source base for all of this, or a flexible NoSQL DB that will allow
for all kinds of flexibility.


# (2018-07-22)

Start by imaging a world where the project is working order. ... Plan according
to that.

# (2018-07-21)

VP and directors are doing too much follow up, and don't have enough progress
data to build a decision on.

GOAL: stay away from email, ... all communications and reporting should be on a
unified system, .... only use email to communicate with external entities (those
who are not on the system), ... and even then, initiate communications and
receive responses and record all correspondence in that unified system. + DMS +
more ...

# (2018-07-05)

Assessment will be outdated the minute we start.

Our whole role is to carry out the work, and support management good.

# (2018-07-02)

Manage project and project resources and operations resources and ownership,
like a firewall, switch, ... etc.